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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: x86 pat.c:phys_mem_access_prot_allowed() bogosity
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:31:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080427123120.GZ2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> (raw)

Commit e7f260a276f2c9184fe753732d834b1f6fbe9f17
(x86: PAT use reserve free memtype in mmap of /dev/mem)
added the following gem to arch/x86/mm/pat.c:

<--  snip  -->

...
int phys_mem_access_prot_allowed(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
                                unsigned long size, pgprot_t *vma_prot)
{
        u64 offset = ((u64) pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT;
        unsigned long flags = _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS;
        unsigned long ret_flags;
...
...  (nothing that touches ret_flags)
...
        if (flags != _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS) {
                retval = reserve_memtype(offset, offset + size, flags, NULL);
        } else {
                retval = reserve_memtype(offset, offset + size, -1, &ret_flags);
        }

        if (retval < 0)
                return 0;

        flags = ret_flags;

        if (pfn <= max_pfn_mapped &&
            ioremap_change_attr((unsigned long)__va(offset), size, flags) < 0) {
                free_memtype(offset, offset + size);
                printk(KERN_INFO
                "%s:%d /dev/mem ioremap_change_attr failed %s for %Lx-%Lx\n",
                        current->comm, current->pid,
                        cattr_name(flags),
                        offset, offset + size);
                return 0;
        }

        *vma_prot = __pgprot((pgprot_val(*vma_prot) & ~_PAGE_CACHE_MASK) |
                             flags);
        return 1;
}

<--  snip  -->

If (flags != _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS) we pass garbage from the stack to 
ioremap_change_attr() and/or __pgprot().

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

cu
Adrian

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-27 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-27 12:31 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2008-04-27 13:11 ` Ingo Molnar

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